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Gold in Josephine County, Oregon

The federal record (USGS MRDS) lists 775 gold occurrences in Josephine County — 368 of them past or active producers. Below is that record, readable: the documented sites, and the live map that puts claims, creeks, roads and geology under every one of them.

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Josephine County by the numbers

775recorded gold occurrences
368past & active gold producers
186recorded as placer ground

The recorded gold sites

Producers first, then prospects and occurrences — each links into the live map of that exact ground:

SiteStatusType
Briggs PocketProducer
Old ChannelProducerplacer
Waldo Area PlacersProducerplacer
A Bar/Gold Pan Placer MinePast producerplacer
AjaxProducer
Ajax MinePast producer
Ajax PlacerPast producerplacer
AlmedaPast producer
AltaPast producer
Althouse -Run Gulch PlacerProducer
Althouse MineProducer
Aman RanchPast producerplacer
AnacondaPast producer
Anaconda MinePast producer
AndersonPast producerplacer
Anderson PlacerPast producerplacer
Andes & Howard ProspectsPast producer
ArgoProducer
Argo GroupPast producer
Arnold MineProducer
Atlas Gold DredgingProducerplacer
Atlas Gold Dredging Corp.Past producerplacer
BaileyPast producer
Bailey Group PlacersPast producerplacer
Bailey Mine/Waldo Area PlacersPast producerplacer
Bear PlacerProducerplacer
Bear Placers, Inc.Past producerplacer
Becca & Morning GroupProducer
Benson PlacerProducerplacer
Benton MineProducer

Showing the top 30 of 775 recorded gold occurrences — every one is on the live map.

What this can — and can't — tell you

The public record shows where gold was documented, claimed and produced. It cannot tell you what's left, whether a specific creek still carries color, or that any spot will pay. What it CAN do is stack the odds: known sources upslope, the creeks that drain them, what's already claimed, and the bedrock — read together. Always verify claim status with BLM and land rules before you dig. Information, not advice.

The free map shows every dot above. Membership opens the layers that turn dots into a plan — favorability at working zoom, active claims, land ownership, geology and the creeks that drain the known sources. The first 7 days are free.

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